Coffee and Cake

The FINCON (Finnish contingent) commander told me last week that everyone who's turn it was to rotate home in the next rotation should be in CNL on Friday. I wasn't very fond of the idea (nor was anyone else at PO Aibak, for that matter) but and order is an order. To make use of an otherwise useless trip, we scheduled the periodical maintenance for Lion in Camp Marmul at the same time. The drive to CNL was ok, since there wasn't too much traffic as it was Friday. Everyone in the patrol were short-tempered and irritated. I'm not sure why, but my guess is that it was just because of the occasion. In CNL there was a long briefing, after which everyone got a little something to bring home (picture to be added later). The commander was pleased with everyone and their work (as is usually the case at the end of an exercise or an operation. I almost had to pinch myself to see if I was still alive, because in most cases only the dead are praised this much). There was pastries, coffee and cake, and later in the evening a barbecue and sauna. Camp Northern Lights was unpleasantly hot, just like when I first arrived just about eleven months ago.